Project 365

So, I got called out on my Project365 pictures (thanks Donna!) and am back at. I am doing pretty good, the hardest part is just having my camera with me at the right time. For the most part I have done a decent job...I think!

1.13.10.....walking in Papaw's boots..he loved it!
1.14.10...some scrapbooking...a month in review from last May

1.15.10....singing into his microphone

1.16.10...bowling

1.17.10....scrapping again from last May...look how much they have changed!

1.18.10...brushing teeth before bed

1.19.10....future fisherman

1.20.10...packing for Columbia work meeting...kitty always has to get in the suitcase

1.21.10....50 year licensee luncheon at work...Madisons..YUM!!

1.22.10....after having a few :) drinks and dinner in Columbia at Sycamore

1.23.10...Margie with one of our dentist members who looks like Eric Clapton

1.24.10.....making some valentines

1.25.10...Chase i the hamper...he had me put a blanket over it so he could hide! This was before he fell over in it and cut his lip...just a little blood!

1.26.10....decided I better get a theme and invitations for Chase's 2nd birthday. Doing a farm theme and digitally scrapping his invitations with this set above...

1.28.10....family dinner night...Chase and Gavin got some buddy time together

1.29.10...so this is what 4" of snow looks like....no snow day today!

Me and my crazy ideas

As if I don't have plenty to do these days, I have decided to take on another creative project. It is called Project 365 and the premise is to take a picture every day for a year and journal/scrapbook it. Yah, I know, I am so far behind already, but hey, who cares, it will be neat to look at in the end. Now we aren't world travellers or anything, so the picture will likely just be what is going on in our world that day...some will be more mundane than others, but hey, whatever! Such is life! And if a I miss a day here and there, I won't kill myself over it, I will just fill in with a pic from the day before or after. The hardest part is just having a camera handy when I need one! So here goes!!

1.1.2010...our rockstar. Playing at home with mama's sunglasses.

1.2.2010...Santa brought him a "small" little people farm and he loves it so much, so after Christmas I found the big one for 1/2 off at Walmart and he is having a ball now.

1.3.2010.....he wanted Elmo to sit in the highchair with him

1.4.2010....this morning on the way to the sitter's, he was jabbering up a storm and I realized it will not be long before we are having full -on conversations with each other!

1.5.2010.....worked on christmas thank you cards...hopefully you got your's by now!

1.6.2010....first snowfall of 2010...can you see the snowflakes?

1.7.2010....snow day at home. He was up way early this day and was super cranky. So I was trying to find things to distract him....so we made a backpack (backpack, backpack he sang the entire time) for him which he loved. He looks like he is ready for his first day of school...I almost shed a tear!

1.8.2010.....Famous got his wisdom teeth out today...picture from the car outside the drs office.

1.9.2010.....eating "pa-corn" for snack....yes, he had to hold the bowl!

1.10.2010....trying on daddy's Mizzou slippers

1.11.2010.....Stamp club night....these are the cute things we made. The domino is a magnet and the valentine one is a paper bag that holds a packet of hot cocoa...neat, huh?

1.12.2010....my first mundane picture....folded laundry...I slipped up and almost forgot my picture today and Chase had already gone to bed. Oh well, laundry happens and it is part of daily life! :)

What a week!

Wow, what a week this has been....crazy Christmas days! And I think they will only get busier and wilder as Chase gets older. So much to do and we don't even have to travel more than 5 miles away from home to visit everyone!

We had a wonderful Christmas, starting with dinner Christmas Eve with Great Grandma Stokes at Gamma and Papaw's house. I love that Chase has his own names for everyone...even though I am constantly calling them by the wrong name. It's amazing that I haven't confused Chase! We had a yummy dinner and then opened presents.

Christmas morning, Chase was good to us and let us sleep a little past 7. Then we got up and let the festivities begin. It was a great time watching Chase open his gifts and help with ours too! Famous surprised me with a very pretty blingy watch (and it wasn't even on my list!).

After a short nap, we ventured to Nana and KK's for round 3. We had great lunch there and started in on the presents again. After a couple of hours, it was home again to try another nap...but it didn't work. He just jabbered the entire time and we finally got him up after a while.

Then to Great Grandma Stokes' for the celebration with the whole Stokes family. More good food, more presents and one pooped little boy. He and Gavin chased each other through the house and had lots of fun together. Chase fell in the kitchen and got a nice goose egg on his forehead that is still lingering. We tried taking family pictures, but I haven't seen them yet, so I am not sure how those turned out!

All and all, it was a wonderful but exhausting four day weekend. I need a vacation from my vacation!! And I am so ready to take down the decorations and get back to normal!!

Ready for some pics???

Snow buds outside on Sunday
Trying out his new boots!

Refueling

Playing at Nana's

In the paper with Gavin

Helping Nana and Kay with presents

Trying on daddy's new gloves

Christmas PJs

Trying out the tool bench

His big boy bike!

Eating a dill pickle from Lutz's...he liked it!

His shirt is an understatement ;)

Checking out the ornaments

Reading with daddy

The countdown begins

A completed scrapbook page (from June...way behind!)
In the tub...he is into swimming on his belly now!

Christmas pjs

Me and my bubbie

Daddy and Chase

Isn't he getting so big!

Some more Christmas decor...I think I am done now.

Finally got ornaments up last week.

Can you believe that Christmas is just days away now...I am almost ready! It is getting increasingly difficult to get back to my blog on a regular basis, but I will keep trying. After all, this is my online scrapbook to help me remember everything!!

Two weeks ago, Chase started to get sick, had a cough and runny nose. The doctor said give it a week and if he wasn't better, bring him back. Well a week passed and he was better but then another 4 days passed and he was sick again. Bad cough, runny nose, the works. This past Saturday, we stayed in all day, as he was just not feeling well. Chase and I had spent a restless night sleeping on the couch, because he would not go back to sleep in his crib...guess he wanted some mama time. We missed my MDA Christmas party (for the second time in a row...last year Chase had the flu and gave it to me as well) that night but he slept much better. Sunday, we decided to run to Target and see if some fresh air would do him good. When we got there, the flourescent lights made us immediately notice that his eyes looked really red, which we thought could have been from being tired. Sunday night, he didn't sleep great either, but I woke fully expecting to take him to the sitters. He really never ran any fever and I just figured this was something that had to run his course. We had to wake him up Monday morning and as soon as we saw him, we knew he was staying home. His eyes were matted and really red. He still coughing too. I didn't know if he had pink eye or another type of eye infection. Famous stayed home with him and I went to work and got him an appt for the afternoon. We discovered he had a double ear infection and eye infection, but luckily not pink eye....and we got oral antibiotics to take care of both. I don't even want to think about putting eye drops in....just suctioning his nose out already looks and sounds like we are torturing him :) Glad to report, his eyes looked much better this morning and seems like the antibiotics are doing their job.

So with the sickies, I of course have to rock him before bed and love extra on him.....so now when we go to take him to bed, he points to the glider and says "rock". He also has taken to singing Rock a Bye Baby...it is too cute. He has the melody down pretty good and sings "rock a baby". Such a sweetie pie. Makes up for the havoc that he wreaks the rest of the time!!

Just three weeks away

Pushing the swing....
Running away from Daddy

Enjoying a warm spurt outside

A little bathroom decorating in brown, burgandy and greens

Decorating my buffet that I just redid

On top of the TV armoire

Christmas that is and I am not ready at all! Lots to do before then.

Mr man is doing great, staying busy as usual. The boy rarely rests for a minute and is always into something. Since Thanksgiving, he has had a little cough, but never a fever and he seems to be doing better. No coughing at all last night, so that is good. It is so hard to hear him in bed coughing and have nothing you can really do to make him better. So I am glad he slept better last night.

Thanksgiving was great this year. Since we always go two places on Thanksgiving, we always say we are not going to stuff ourselves...but that never happens. There is just too much good food to be had. It was a long day, but I am thankful that we never really have to travel during the holidays...it is nice to be around home.

Not too much new in our house, I started putting up decorations but now just have to finish adding the ornaments to the tree. I decided to change up my colors to red and black this year, so it is taking a little longer to pull it all together. I just love Christmas decorating. Otherwise, just the normal preparations for Santa's arrival. It is going to be so fun this year seeing Chase (and Gavin) ripping into presents. It was so fun watching them interact at Thanksgiving and they had so much fun chasing each other around!